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Public invited for ice cream and discourse

Alycin Bektesh
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Aspen Public Radio News

Wednesday afternoon the city of Aspen is hosting its first public gathering to collect feedback about the new configuration of Castle Creek bridge. The reduction in street lane width in April made room for a temporary expansion of the bike/pedestrian trail along the north side of Highway 82.

From 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. the public can give input, ask questions, and go on a tour of the “living lab” at an ice cream social to be held at Bugsy Barnard Park on Cemetery Lane. Several other public events are scheduled this summer, and a survey is available online.

The current configuration will be in place through July. The city spent almost eighty thousand dollars on the experiment  - well under the approved budget of one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

If the public is in support of reconfiguring the bridge corridor, the permanent solution will cost nearly $2 million dollars.

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